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The return of ESPN's "Friday Night Fights" can't come soon enough, right? Well, the network powers that be are in the process of planning the early part of the new season. Although the bouts are not yet set, the first three cards have dates, sites...

The process of Mikey Garcia moving up in weight appears to be under way. Plans are in the works for Garcia, who easily outpointed Juan Carlos Burgos in a snoozefest last Saturday night to retain his junior lightweight title, to head up to lightwei...

Junior welterweight titleholder Lamont Peterson was making no run-of-the-mill defense on Saturday in Washington, D.C. Coming off a knockout loss, the hometown fighter had plenty to prove -- and did just that in a unanimous decision that re-established Peterson as a player at 140 pounds.

Mikey Garcia has been talked up by promoter Bob Arum as a pound-for-pound ace, someone who could help lead the sport when the Mayweathers and Pacquiaos exit stage left. He'll need to offer just a bit more entertainment value, though, than he showed o...

Mikey Garcia turned in a workmanlike performance in a win over Juan Carlos Burgos on Saturday in New York City. But given the hopes attached to the junior lightweight titleholder, even a wide decision doesn't necessarily cut it.

Emerging pound-for-pound star Mikey Garcia is finally on the fast track, set to face Juan Carlos Burgos on Saturday in New York before a likely move up in weight and, seemingly, to the top of boxing's food chain.

Mikey Garcia defends his 130-pound crown, the WBO version, on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, but in the future, perhaps the near future, he could be packing on the pounds and doing his work at a much higher weight class. Garcia could wel...

You want a guy who stirs the pot, offers amusing trash talk to go with superb pugilistic skills. Mikey Garcia, who headlines against Juan Carlos Burgos at the Madison Square Garden Theater on Saturday evening, is not your guy. The 26-year-old, 13...

Junior lightweight titlist Miguel Angel "Mikey" Garcia will make his first defense against Juan Carlos Burgos on Jan. 25 at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum told ESPN.com on Friday.

Fresh from a dominant eighth-round knockout of Rocky Martinez on Nov. 9 to win a junior lightweight world title, Mikey Garcia's first defense is on the drawing board. Garcia, whose only problem with Martinez was getting dropped in the second round...

Omar Figueroa, a hard-hitting lightweight from Texas, was the known commodity in San Antonio on Saturday. But Nihito Arakawa won't soon be forgotten after he engaged in a war with Figueroa, who earned an interim belt the hard way.